I don't need lessons on who to cheer for. I am perfectly bilingual PhD engineer and university professor living in the US, with a thesis in each official language (Ecole Polytechnique, McGill). Your narrow definition of respect as some sort of collective movement that hinges on a choice of hockey coach is utterly wrong-headed, especially if said coach can barely utter a meaningful sentence in his own native tongue.
If a French Canadian really wants respect, I say earn it as an individual. Stay in school, do the hard classes that most kids don't want to do: math, physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, computer science, medicine. Decide to compete with anyone (Chinese, Indian, WASP, Jewish, Arab, anyone anywhere) in real life: at NIH or NSF, in business, in Silicon Valley... If your hope for respect hinges on a collective movement of any kind, let alone the nature of the press conference of a hockey club, it is very tenuous indeed; that individual may not have risen much higher than the proverbial waterboy.